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  <div class="section" id="module-email.utils">
<span id="email-utils-miscellaneous-utilities"></span><h1>19.1.14. <a class="reference internal" href="#module-email.utils" title="email.utils: Miscellaneous email package utilities."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">email.utils</span></code></a>: Miscellaneous utilities<a class="headerlink" href="#module-email.utils" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p><strong>Source code:</strong> <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/python/cpython/tree/3.6/Lib/email/utils.py">Lib/email/utils.py</a></p>
<hr class="docutils" />
<p>There are a couple of useful utilities provided in the <a class="reference internal" href="#module-email.utils" title="email.utils: Miscellaneous email package utilities."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">email.utils</span></code></a>
module:</p>
<dl class="function">
<dt id="email.utils.localtime">
<code class="descclassname">email.utils.</code><code class="descname">localtime</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>dt=None</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#email.utils.localtime" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return local time as an aware datetime object.  If called without
arguments, return current time.  Otherwise <em>dt</em> argument should be a
<a class="reference internal" href="datetime.html#datetime.datetime" title="datetime.datetime"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a> instance, and it is converted to the local time
zone according to the system time zone database.  If <em>dt</em> is naive (that
is, <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">dt.tzinfo</span></code> is <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">None</span></code>), it is assumed to be in local time.  In this
case, a positive or zero value for <em>isdst</em> causes <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">localtime</span></code> to presume
initially that summer time (for example, Daylight Saving Time) is or is not
(respectively) in effect for the specified time.  A negative value for
<em>isdst</em> causes the <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">localtime</span></code> to attempt to divine whether summer time
is in effect for the specified time.</p>
<div class="versionadded">
<p><span class="versionmodified">New in version 3.3.</span></p>
</div>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="function">
<dt id="email.utils.make_msgid">
<code class="descclassname">email.utils.</code><code class="descname">make_msgid</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>idstring=None</em>, <em>domain=None</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#email.utils.make_msgid" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Returns a string suitable for an <span class="target" id="index-0"></span><a class="rfc reference external" href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2822.html"><strong>RFC 2822</strong></a>-compliant
<em class="mailheader">Message-ID</em> header.  Optional <em>idstring</em> if given, is a string
used to strengthen the uniqueness of the message id.  Optional <em>domain</em> if
given provides the portion of the msgid after the ‘&#64;’.  The default is the
local hostname.  It is not normally necessary to override this default, but
may be useful certain cases, such as a constructing distributed system that
uses a consistent domain name across multiple hosts.</p>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified">Changed in version 3.2: </span>Added the <em>domain</em> keyword.</p>
</div>
</dd></dl>

<p>The remaining functions are part of the legacy (<code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Compat32</span></code>) email API.  There
is no need to directly use these with the new API, since the parsing and
formatting they provide is done automatically by the header parsing machinery
of the new API.</p>
<dl class="function">
<dt id="email.utils.quote">
<code class="descclassname">email.utils.</code><code class="descname">quote</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>str</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#email.utils.quote" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return a new string with backslashes in <em>str</em> replaced by two backslashes, and
double quotes replaced by backslash-double quote.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="function">
<dt id="email.utils.unquote">
<code class="descclassname">email.utils.</code><code class="descname">unquote</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>str</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#email.utils.unquote" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return a new string which is an <em>unquoted</em> version of <em>str</em>. If <em>str</em> ends and
begins with double quotes, they are stripped off.  Likewise if <em>str</em> ends and
begins with angle brackets, they are stripped off.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="function">
<dt id="email.utils.parseaddr">
<code class="descclassname">email.utils.</code><code class="descname">parseaddr</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>address</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#email.utils.parseaddr" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Parse address – which should be the value of some address-containing field such
as <em class="mailheader">To</em> or <em class="mailheader">Cc</em> – into its constituent <em>realname</em> and
<em>email address</em> parts.  Returns a tuple of that information, unless the parse
fails, in which case a 2-tuple of <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">('',</span> <span class="pre">'')</span></code> is returned.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="function">
<dt id="email.utils.formataddr">
<code class="descclassname">email.utils.</code><code class="descname">formataddr</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>pair</em>, <em>charset='utf-8'</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#email.utils.formataddr" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>The inverse of <a class="reference internal" href="#email.utils.parseaddr" title="email.utils.parseaddr"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal"><span class="pre">parseaddr()</span></code></a>, this takes a 2-tuple of the form <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">(realname,</span>
<span class="pre">email_address)</span></code> and returns the string value suitable for a <em class="mailheader">To</em> or
<em class="mailheader">Cc</em> header.  If the first element of <em>pair</em> is false, then the
second element is returned unmodified.</p>
<p>Optional <em>charset</em> is the character set that will be used in the <span class="target" id="index-1"></span><a class="rfc reference external" href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2047.html"><strong>RFC 2047</strong></a>
encoding of the <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">realname</span></code> if the <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">realname</span></code> contains non-ASCII
characters.  Can be an instance of <a class="reference internal" href="stdtypes.html#str" title="str"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">str</span></code></a> or a
<a class="reference internal" href="email.charset.html#email.charset.Charset" title="email.charset.Charset"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">Charset</span></code></a>.  Defaults to <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">utf-8</span></code>.</p>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified">Changed in version 3.3: </span>Added the <em>charset</em> option.</p>
</div>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="function">
<dt id="email.utils.getaddresses">
<code class="descclassname">email.utils.</code><code class="descname">getaddresses</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>fieldvalues</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#email.utils.getaddresses" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>This method returns a list of 2-tuples of the form returned by <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">parseaddr()</span></code>.
<em>fieldvalues</em> is a sequence of header field values as might be returned by
<a class="reference internal" href="email.compat32-message.html#email.message.Message.get_all" title="email.message.Message.get_all"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal"><span class="pre">Message.get_all</span></code></a>.  Here’s a simple
example that gets all the recipients of a message:</p>
<div class="highlight-python3"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">email.utils</span> <span class="k">import</span> <span class="n">getaddresses</span>

<span class="n">tos</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">msg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">get_all</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;to&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="p">[])</span>
<span class="n">ccs</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">msg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">get_all</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;cc&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="p">[])</span>
<span class="n">resent_tos</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">msg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">get_all</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;resent-to&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="p">[])</span>
<span class="n">resent_ccs</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">msg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">get_all</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;resent-cc&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="p">[])</span>
<span class="n">all_recipients</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">getaddresses</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">tos</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="n">ccs</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="n">resent_tos</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="n">resent_ccs</span><span class="p">)</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="function">
<dt id="email.utils.parsedate">
<code class="descclassname">email.utils.</code><code class="descname">parsedate</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>date</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#email.utils.parsedate" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Attempts to parse a date according to the rules in <span class="target" id="index-2"></span><a class="rfc reference external" href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2822.html"><strong>RFC 2822</strong></a>. however, some
mailers don’t follow that format as specified, so <a class="reference internal" href="#email.utils.parsedate" title="email.utils.parsedate"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">parsedate()</span></code></a> tries to
guess correctly in such cases.  <em>date</em> is a string containing an <span class="target" id="index-3"></span><a class="rfc reference external" href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2822.html"><strong>RFC 2822</strong></a>
date, such as  <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">&quot;Mon,</span> <span class="pre">20</span> <span class="pre">Nov</span> <span class="pre">1995</span> <span class="pre">19:12:08</span> <span class="pre">-0500&quot;</span></code>.  If it succeeds in parsing
the date, <a class="reference internal" href="#email.utils.parsedate" title="email.utils.parsedate"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">parsedate()</span></code></a> returns a 9-tuple that can be passed directly to
<a class="reference internal" href="time.html#time.mktime" title="time.mktime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">time.mktime()</span></code></a>; otherwise <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">None</span></code> will be returned.  Note that indexes 6,
7, and 8 of the result tuple are not usable.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="function">
<dt id="email.utils.parsedate_tz">
<code class="descclassname">email.utils.</code><code class="descname">parsedate_tz</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>date</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#email.utils.parsedate_tz" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Performs the same function as <a class="reference internal" href="#email.utils.parsedate" title="email.utils.parsedate"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">parsedate()</span></code></a>, but returns either <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">None</span></code> or
a 10-tuple; the first 9 elements make up a tuple that can be passed directly to
<a class="reference internal" href="time.html#time.mktime" title="time.mktime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">time.mktime()</span></code></a>, and the tenth is the offset of the date’s timezone from UTC
(which is the official term for Greenwich Mean Time) <a class="footnote-reference" href="#id2" id="id1">[1]</a>.  If the input string
has no timezone, the last element of the tuple returned is <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">None</span></code>.  Note that
indexes 6, 7, and 8 of the result tuple are not usable.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="function">
<dt id="email.utils.parsedate_to_datetime">
<code class="descclassname">email.utils.</code><code class="descname">parsedate_to_datetime</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>date</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#email.utils.parsedate_to_datetime" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>The inverse of <a class="reference internal" href="#email.utils.format_datetime" title="email.utils.format_datetime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">format_datetime()</span></code></a>.  Performs the same function as
<a class="reference internal" href="#email.utils.parsedate" title="email.utils.parsedate"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">parsedate()</span></code></a>, but on success returns a <a class="reference internal" href="datetime.html#datetime.datetime" title="datetime.datetime"><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a>.  If
the input date has a timezone of <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">-0000</span></code>, the <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code> will be a naive
<code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code>, and if the date is conforming to the RFCs it will represent a
time in UTC but with no indication of the actual source timezone of the
message the date comes from.  If the input date has any other valid timezone
offset, the <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code> will be an aware <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code> with the
corresponding a <a class="reference internal" href="datetime.html#datetime.timezone" title="datetime.timezone"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">timezone</span></code></a> <a class="reference internal" href="datetime.html#datetime.tzinfo" title="datetime.tzinfo"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></code></a>.</p>
<div class="versionadded">
<p><span class="versionmodified">New in version 3.3.</span></p>
</div>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="function">
<dt id="email.utils.mktime_tz">
<code class="descclassname">email.utils.</code><code class="descname">mktime_tz</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>tuple</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#email.utils.mktime_tz" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Turn a 10-tuple as returned by <a class="reference internal" href="#email.utils.parsedate_tz" title="email.utils.parsedate_tz"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">parsedate_tz()</span></code></a> into a UTC
timestamp (seconds since the Epoch).  If the timezone item in the
tuple is <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">None</span></code>, assume local time.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="function">
<dt id="email.utils.formatdate">
<code class="descclassname">email.utils.</code><code class="descname">formatdate</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>timeval=None</em>, <em>localtime=False</em>, <em>usegmt=False</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#email.utils.formatdate" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Returns a date string as per <span class="target" id="index-4"></span><a class="rfc reference external" href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2822.html"><strong>RFC 2822</strong></a>, e.g.:</p>
<div class="highlight-python3"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">Fri</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">09</span> <span class="n">Nov</span> <span class="mi">2001</span> <span class="mi">01</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="mi">08</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="mi">47</span> <span class="o">-</span><span class="mi">0000</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>Optional <em>timeval</em> if given is a floating point time value as accepted by
<a class="reference internal" href="time.html#time.gmtime" title="time.gmtime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">time.gmtime()</span></code></a> and <a class="reference internal" href="time.html#time.localtime" title="time.localtime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">time.localtime()</span></code></a>, otherwise the current time is
used.</p>
<p>Optional <em>localtime</em> is a flag that when <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">True</span></code>, interprets <em>timeval</em>, and
returns a date relative to the local timezone instead of UTC, properly taking
daylight savings time into account. The default is <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">False</span></code> meaning UTC is
used.</p>
<p>Optional <em>usegmt</em> is a flag that when <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">True</span></code>, outputs a  date string with the
timezone as an ascii string <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">GMT</span></code>, rather than a numeric <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">-0000</span></code>. This is
needed for some protocols (such as HTTP). This only applies when <em>localtime</em> is
<code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">False</span></code>.  The default is <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">False</span></code>.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="function">
<dt id="email.utils.format_datetime">
<code class="descclassname">email.utils.</code><code class="descname">format_datetime</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>dt</em>, <em>usegmt=False</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#email.utils.format_datetime" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Like <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">formatdate</span></code>, but the input is a <a class="reference internal" href="datetime.html#module-datetime" title="datetime: Basic date and time types."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a> instance.  If it is
a naive datetime, it is assumed to be “UTC with no information about the
source timezone”, and the conventional <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">-0000</span></code> is used for the timezone.
If it is an aware <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code>, then the numeric timezone offset is used.
If it is an aware timezone with offset zero, then <em>usegmt</em> may be set to
<code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">True</span></code>, in which case the string <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">GMT</span></code> is used instead of the numeric
timezone offset.  This provides a way to generate standards conformant HTTP
date headers.</p>
<div class="versionadded">
<p><span class="versionmodified">New in version 3.3.</span></p>
</div>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="function">
<dt id="email.utils.decode_rfc2231">
<code class="descclassname">email.utils.</code><code class="descname">decode_rfc2231</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>s</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#email.utils.decode_rfc2231" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Decode the string <em>s</em> according to <span class="target" id="index-5"></span><a class="rfc reference external" href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2231.html"><strong>RFC 2231</strong></a>.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="function">
<dt id="email.utils.encode_rfc2231">
<code class="descclassname">email.utils.</code><code class="descname">encode_rfc2231</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>s</em>, <em>charset=None</em>, <em>language=None</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#email.utils.encode_rfc2231" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Encode the string <em>s</em> according to <span class="target" id="index-6"></span><a class="rfc reference external" href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2231.html"><strong>RFC 2231</strong></a>.  Optional <em>charset</em> and
<em>language</em>, if given is the character set name and language name to use.  If
neither is given, <em>s</em> is returned as-is.  If <em>charset</em> is given but <em>language</em>
is not, the string is encoded using the empty string for <em>language</em>.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="function">
<dt id="email.utils.collapse_rfc2231_value">
<code class="descclassname">email.utils.</code><code class="descname">collapse_rfc2231_value</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>value</em>, <em>errors='replace'</em>, <em>fallback_charset='us-ascii'</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#email.utils.collapse_rfc2231_value" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>When a header parameter is encoded in <span class="target" id="index-7"></span><a class="rfc reference external" href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2231.html"><strong>RFC 2231</strong></a> format,
<a class="reference internal" href="email.compat32-message.html#email.message.Message.get_param" title="email.message.Message.get_param"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal"><span class="pre">Message.get_param</span></code></a> may return a
3-tuple containing the character set,
language, and value.  <a class="reference internal" href="#email.utils.collapse_rfc2231_value" title="email.utils.collapse_rfc2231_value"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">collapse_rfc2231_value()</span></code></a> turns this into a unicode
string.  Optional <em>errors</em> is passed to the <em>errors</em> argument of <a class="reference internal" href="stdtypes.html#str" title="str"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">str</span></code></a>’s
<a class="reference internal" href="stdtypes.html#str.encode" title="str.encode"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">encode()</span></code></a> method; it defaults to <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">'replace'</span></code>.  Optional
<em>fallback_charset</em> specifies the character set to use if the one in the
<span class="target" id="index-8"></span><a class="rfc reference external" href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2231.html"><strong>RFC 2231</strong></a> header is not known by Python; it defaults to <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">'us-ascii'</span></code>.</p>
<p>For convenience, if the <em>value</em> passed to <a class="reference internal" href="#email.utils.collapse_rfc2231_value" title="email.utils.collapse_rfc2231_value"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">collapse_rfc2231_value()</span></code></a> is not
a tuple, it should be a string and it is returned unquoted.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="function">
<dt id="email.utils.decode_params">
<code class="descclassname">email.utils.</code><code class="descname">decode_params</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>params</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#email.utils.decode_params" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Decode parameters list according to <span class="target" id="index-9"></span><a class="rfc reference external" href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2231.html"><strong>RFC 2231</strong></a>.  <em>params</em> is a sequence of
2-tuples containing elements of the form <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">(content-type,</span> <span class="pre">string-value)</span></code>.</p>
</dd></dl>

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the POSIX standard while this module follows <span class="target" id="index-10"></span><a class="rfc reference external" href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2822.html"><strong>RFC 2822</strong></a>.</td></tr>
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